churme

English

Noun

churme (plural churmes)

Obsolete form of chirm.
- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
  The churmne of a thousand taunts and reproaches.
- 1854, William Barnes, Philological Grammar:
  To forbid a churme or uproar.

References

churme in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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